True Crime Historian
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True Crime Historian
Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalismBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.
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The Chair He Took
The Killing of Wild Bill Hickok and the Two Trials of Jack McCall
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Episode 493 begins...
She Died Singing It
The Slashing Of Old Shakespeare
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Episode 492 concerns the morning of April twenty-four...
A Witness Denied
The Poisoning of George Wythe
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Episode 490 takes place in Richmond, Virginia, 1806. Ge...
The Woman By The Window
The Killing Of Senator Arthur Brown
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Episode 489 takes us to the Hotel Raleigh, Washin...
The Broken Butterfly
The Murder of Anna Marie Keenan
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Episode 488 takes us to a top-floor flat on West Fift...
Don't Mourn! Organize!
The Execution Of Joe Hill
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Episode 487 takes us to Salt Lake City, 1914, where a groce...
The Dumbbell Murder
The Snyder-Gray Affair
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Episode 486 takes us to a Dutch Colonial on 222nd Street in Qu...
The Eltham Murder
The Girl Who Named Him
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Episode 485 takes us to Kidbrooke Lane, Eltham, before dawn on...
The Luger In The Dark
Assassin Unknown
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Episode 484 takes us to a frost-covered parlor outside Yankton, Sout...
The White Flag Massacre
No Mercy At Mountain Meadows
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Episode 482 takes us to Mountain Meadows, Utah Territory...
The Fourteenth Fiasco
The Klan Claims A Scallywag
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Episode 477 tells the story of Judge George W. Ashburn —...
Femme Fatale Ann O'Delia Diss Debar
New York, 1888. Ann O'Delia Diss Debar — self-styled Spirit Princess, alleged daughter of Lola Montez — convinced a grieving Madison Avenue lawyer tha...
American Scoudrel B. Gratz Brown
B. Gratz Brown — ex-senator, sitting governor, Vice-Presidential nominee of two parties at once — was handed the stage built to topple Grant's corrupt...
American Scoundrel Stephen Wallace Dorsey
Gilded Age Washington, 1876. Senator Stephen W. Dorsey and the Second Assistant Postmaster General ran a bid-rigging racket that bled the Post Office...
The Moonlight Row
The Smuttynose Island Murders of 1873
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Episode 476 explores a case would become one of...
The Tiny Error of the Wily Widow
"The Tiny Error of the Wily Widow" (57:52) transports us to the plains of the Dakotas and another plot, this one to get rid of a wealthy husband for a...
Femme Fatale Sophie Lyons
Gilded Age New York crowned her the Queen of Crime. Sophie Lyons — pickpocket, shoplifter, blackmailer — spent fifty years selling men's shame back to...
The Poison Pastor
Crimes of the Scoundrel Clarence V.T. Richeson
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Episode 74 explores the tawdry case of...
American Scoundrel Johann Georg Rapp
Father George Rapp ran the Harmony Society at Economy, Pennsylvania, by two commandments: celibacy for men whose wives he had evicted, and poverty for...
The Ogress Of Reading
The Trial and Execution of Amelia Dyer
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American Scoundrel: George Cassiday
For ten years, George Cassiday, known on Capitol Hill as the Man in the Green Hat, ran liquor to the United States Congress while four out of five of...
STARKWEATHER
The Nebraska Spree Killer
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Episode 475 takes us on a wild ride across Nebraska with Ch...
The Merry Widow Of Bicester
"The Merry Widow of Bicester" takes us to battle-torn England during World War II, when as if there wasn't already enough death and suffering, a jealo...
Cassie Chadwick
Born Elizabeth Bigley in a Ontario railway camp, she died Cassie Chadwick in an Ohio prison cell — and in between, she convinced the banks of northern...
A Family Of Outlaws
The Reckless Reno Gang
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Episode 92 takes place after the Civil War, when the Reno Brot...
American Scoundrel John Eaton
Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War spent a decade courting a married woman, arranged her husband's convenient posting to the Mediterranean, and married...
Lizzie Gillespie Killed By Twin Brother
Family Tragedy in Rising Sun
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Episode 89. In a lot of these stories from the old newsp...
American Scoundrel Clyde Tolson
Clyde Tolson ran personnel and discipline at the FBI for 44 years — the man who hired, promoted, and silenced the agents who carried out J. Edgar Hoov...
At The Bottom Of A Brookfield Well
The Case Of Bathsheba Spooner
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Episode 474 takes place in 1788 when the secrets of a p...
Femme Fatale Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian entered the Tang court as a teenage concubine in 638. By 690, she'd murdered her way to the Dragon Throne — the only woman in Chinese histor...
Magazine #4
Episode 130
Murder By Fire, by Brandon White
The Abominable Mr. Yelverton, by Edmund Pearson
The American Excha...
American Scoundrel Wiliam N. Roach
William N. Roach embezzled sixty thousand dollars from a Washington bank, fled to Dakota Territory, and returned the money just fast enough to dodge p...
Girl Did Not Kill Herself
The Mysterious Death of Louise Monteabaro In
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Episode 20, Police Chief Henry Blake’s s...
Their Secret Died In The Chair
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Episode 22 is an exciting story that has many of the elements of classic noir: A deadly robbery, a...
American Scoundrel Boss Tweed
Gilded Age New York. William Magear Tweed rode Tammany Hall to the top and looted the city treasury through padded bills, phantom invoices, and kickba...
Murder In The Marble Halls
The Assassination of Huey P. Long
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Episode 473 takes us to Baton Rouge on the night of...
The Showgirl & The Conman
The Complicated Romance of Fannie Brice and Notorious Nicky Arnstein
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In Episo...
American Scoundrel Daniel Butterfield
In 1869, Medal of Honor recipient Daniel Butterfield took a ten-thousand-dollar bribe from Jay Gould to leak Treasury gold sales, helping trigger the...
Magazine #1
Turned Into A Tigress By Her Borgia Blood.How A Criminal Acrobat Makes A Living Out Of His Genuine Broken Neck.How A Little Dog Avenged The Murder Of...
American Scoundrel Joseph R Burton
In 1902, Kansas Senator Joseph R. Burton walked a mail fraud operator into the Post Office inspector's office and made a federal investigation disappe...